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International hotel firms have an important role in the travel and tourism industry development. In recent years, the involvement of these firms in the hotel sector has increased rapidly in the world. Enormous number of studies confirmed that the number of hotels that operating by international hotel firms in some countries is more than others that operating by local firms in some countries. However, the number of these firms in Libya is two only which are Radisson Blue and Corinthian. In order to demonstrate the importance of these firms to countries' economy, this paper concentrated on illustrating the main advantages to host countries generally and to Libya in particular of international hotel firms. To achieve the paper’s aim, semi-structured interviews method has been used to collect data. The results obtained show that there are many advantages that the host countries may obtain when they succeed in attracting international hotel firms to their land such as enhancing the economic life of the country, promoting the country as international tourist destination, training local people outside the country and bringing them back to work in local hotels, presenting the highest standards of quality and services...etc
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